Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Soar Maes-yr-haf Congregational Chapel and forecourt railings
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 5 January 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66256, -3.80685
- Cadw reference
- 11801
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Behind a raised railed forecourt at the end of Maes-yr-Haf Road alongside the railway.
Exterior
1864 Independent Chapel on the site of an earlier chapel of 1769. Three bay classical front. Squared, coursed rubble, ashlar dressings. Vermiculated rusticated quoins. Moderately pitched slate roof, hipped to rear. Open timber pediment, plain returned entablature to outer bays, lettering to frieze INDEPENDENT CHAPEL. Centre bay recessed below depressed rusticated arch resting on entablature of outer bays. Inset stone tablet reads MAES-YR-HAF, BUILT 1769, REBUILT 1864. Stepped tripartite gallery window. Centre light broader, moulded arches, plain pilasters on brackets, sill band. Round arched doorway, rusticated architrave, double doors, framed panels.
Tall round arched 2 light windows to outer bays, rusticated architraves. Five window side elevations. Moulded timber eaves cornice. Tall round arched 2 light windows in stepped recesses, stressed keystones. Impost and sill bands, plinth.
Similar fenestration to 2 storey, 2 window schoolroom at rear. Rusticated architrave to ground floor window, similar detail to doorway at right. Raised railed forecourt to front.
Burial ground adjoins to E. Good ironwork railings. Barley twist principal rods, stone base. Tall stone gatepiers tooled caps, contemporary iron double gates.
Interior
Galleried interior.
Nearby in the register
- Subway Under RailwayTransportunder 1 mi
- E.Griffiths, Family GrocerCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.